What is Happening to Reading?

Books are neither banned nor burned, and technology provides information at the touch of a finger. However, that does not necessarily mean that information is accurate, or that the lessening popularity of physical books will not lead to a lessening popularity of intellect. In some ways, Bradbury was completely right: technology can be isolating and terribly lonely, just like the Seashells. Still, books are constantly being published and firefighters continue to put out fires, not start them. Bradbury's novel provides warning of potential things to come, but hopefully these plagues will not completely wipe out society's thirst for

Reading today is a lot different then it was in the year 868 AD; when the first book was published in China. You know a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. Society today is so advanced that everything we do is constantly changing whether we realize it or not. For example, the book, before people would go to a bookstore or library to get the books they were interested in. Today society is making fewer trips to the bookstore and library, and making purchases of novels on their e-readers in the comfort of their own home. With these e-readers you can simply purchase any book you would like, some books being under a buck or even free, saving you a trip to the bookstore. E-readers

In the New Atlantis, Christine Rosen wrote an article, “People of the Screen.” The article talks about old books that are no longer being printed, that if the books are no longer printed, if we choose to replace the book-what will become of reading and the print culture it fostered? Rosen states, “We have already taken the first steps on our journey to a new form of literacy— “digital literacy.”

Technology has become an increasingly advanced as well as an important aspect in modern society. That is why Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, was right to fear books and other printed sources would be replaced by modern technology. Technology has contributed to the significant loss of time children spend reading. Additionally, eBooks have replaced print books. Moreover, television and radio have replaced newspapers as the dominant source of information.

It is probable that books will become obsolete. Printed books are not the most effective nor economical way of transmitting information. Books are vulnerable to being easily destroyed or

Dana Gioia thinks that the decline of reading has a negative impact on today’s society. He gives evidence and facts to persuade the readers “why literature matters".

Technology is used around the world and is a valuable resource used in our society but our society has surrendered valuable reading to technology.

Technology is “stealing” the time we spend on reading books. As Nicholas Carr has mentioned in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Many famous writers are having troubles on reading books. Most of them have not been reading books for months (447). That is one of the impacts that the technology gives us. Teenagers spend most of their time on smart phones and laptops. They have already absorbed enough information from the Internet. As a result, when they are trying to read books, they will feel like they are having a hard time concentrating on

As the world continues to advance technologically, the demand and interest of books will continue to decline. If we aren’t careful we could end up like the society in Fahrenheit 451 where books are banned. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury’s central argument is that the tv and radio and other technologies will make the general populous forget about books in order to get a more immediate high. This in turn will turn the people into empty shells without emotions or any complex thought.

As a new revolution rears its head due to rapidly evolving technology, many are becoming concerned with the potential problems that e-books could present. Ms. Elliot, a retired librarian, expresses her apprehension and concern for this electronic book form through a speech conducted at the “Reading: the future” forum. Directing her speech to mainly booklovers, she also reaches out to parents whose children will be most affected by the development of e-books.

In the book, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury mentions a lot about TV replacing books. Ray’s predictions were correct about technology taking over books. Most people read online now on their kindles, iPads, iPhones, laptops, or a device that connects to the internet. Even at our school we use audio books. Mr. Bradbury was right to fear the replacement of books with technology. More and more kids are finding less interest in reading. With the growth of technology, kids are finding this more important and procrastinate on assignment, such as reading. There is pros and cons to technology and the replacement of books is most likely the worst. Reading is not appropriately valued in today's society anymore. People do not care to read anymore they

In this source it states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. . .That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” This means that overtime with the internet being available people have lost interest in reading an actual book. “I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” This evidence helps the suggestion mentioned previously that people prefer the Internet now more due to acquiring information much easier and

Digital technology has become the wave of our current times. Most of society within a variety of age ranges are connected and/ or utilize some form of digital technology. Back in 2010 4.7% of society’s gross domestic product derived from the digital sector (Roberts &Micken, 2015, p.1). Digital technologies have made it possible for consumers to obtain products easier and faster. The decline of readers of USA Today is a direct result of increased utilization of digital media. This is part of a theory considered as Media Fragmentation.

Now days with the rise of digital technology many physical items such as pen and paper are slowly being replaced by computers and smart phones. But is this really a good thing? I read books and of course so do many other people in this class and around the globe. But since the creation of ‘e-readers’ more and more people have been converting to the technology based side of reading. Although technology is slowly becoming more predominant in this era we should not rely on it to always entertain and keep us occupied.

It is not a stretch to say that a novels original essence could be obliterated from our future society. Truly, do physical manifestations of books have any business being in a world full of self flying cars and internet supremacy? Could they stare down the fierce competition from online music and movie streaming services? Perchance books will find themselves in the most unusual of places. "Eventually they could join the ranks of clay tablets and scrolls displayed in collectors’ glass cases with other curious items of the distant past"(Nuwer, 2016). While printed copies of books enter in the spiral of doom, electronic books are climbing up the stairs of success. Question is, what will the future foretell for this new reading method?